Director, North America Accounting Operations

Job Title:

Director, North America Accounting Operations

Requisition ID:

R023803

Job Description:

Job Title: Director, North America Accounting Operations

Reporting To: Kristine So, Sr. Director, ABK Controller, Accounting Operations

Department: Accounting

Location: Redmond, WA, Atlanta, GA OR Playa Vista, CA

Your Mission

Come join an organization that empowers our collaborators to achieve more through trusted services that ensure accuracy, timeliness, privacy, and accessibility!

We are seeking a highly driven, innovative, and passionate Director, North America Accounting Operations to join the Accounting Operations team inside Finance Operations. Accounting Operations provides large-scale, global accounting support for financial close, reporting, statutory compliance, and audit. We are a distributed team with staff and delivery centers around the world. Accounting Operations is continuously expanding its scope, evolving operating models with intelligent automation, innovative processes, and offering cost efficient solutions for ABK. We strive to provide end-to-end experiences for our customers with built-in compliance and intelligent insights.

As the Director, North America Accounting Operations, you will be responsible for timely and accurate accounting close processes and governance through our business process outsourcing model, ensuring business continuity and accounting compliance. You'll provide thought leadership, guiding successful execution of accounting, statutory, and financial reporting processes, engaging with collaborators across ABK. The ideal candidate brings curiosity, innovative thinking, and a strong background in accounting close, business partnering, process management, and collaboration.

ABK’s mission is to empower every person and every organization to achieve more. With a growth mindset, we innovate, collaborate and uphold values of respect, integrity, and accountability fostering a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.

In alignment with our ABK values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Core Job Responsibilities:

People Management

Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.

• Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
• Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
• Care - Attract and retain phenomenal people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
• Lead a team with varied strengths of expert professionals to grow, develop talent, enable collaboration across FinOps functions for company impact.

Accounting Operations

Leadership and Strategy

• Use broad and deep industry knowledge to lead best-in-class Record-to-Report services with a focus on continuous process improvement.
• Define and implement strategy, balancing user needs with operational priorities for larger return on investment.
• Ensure team priorities align with organizational vision and strategy.

Team and Process Management

• Manage a team responsible for timely, accurate, and compliant close processes. Lead escalations and mitigate risk as needed.

• Ensure Accounting Operations maintains a strong environment of controls.
• Drive process standardization across Finance Operations.
• Establish and maintain effective business partnerships with teams across the company to enable business strategy.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a hard-working team. Champion a culture of continuous learning and professional growth, ensuring team members are motivated and aligned with organizational goals.

Cross-functional Engagement

• Lead cross-functional engagements partnering with business and finance leaders in driving alignment for key initiatives and decisions.
• Govern outsourced Accounting Operations globally; use metrics to size the risk and report on health of operations.
• Zoom in as needed to analyze root causes of the process issues and zoom out to drive improvement at scale.

Compliance and Reporting

• Ensure statutory financial statements and relevant tax filings are completed, filed timely, and in compliance with local laws and regulations.
• Conduct P&L and BS analysis and respond to inquiries from business and finance partners regarding actuals.

Requirements & Experiences

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Business, Accounting /Finance,